On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 02:05:21AM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, May 02, 2014 02:42:07 PM Olof Johansson wrote:

> > Some of the ideas I have heard discussed are:
> > * Adding a new common API for resource management which will have
> > backends for ACPI or DT depending on platform

> I would like to do this, personally, because I believe that drivers
> should not need to add support for any particular firmware interfaces
> directly (except for listing matching device IDs).

The trouble with this is that the different firmware interfaces have
rather different ideas about how things should work.  Basic things like
interrupts are generally fine but more complex things like the way that
devices integrate with system power management are much more up in the
air.